Category Archives: UK Politics

Number 10 and Wordpress

Number 10 has modified their site to use wordpress, and it does look good.
At first.

Unfortunately, they’re not using the full power of wordpress - I note in particular that comments are switched off for everything at the same time that they’re talking about ‘dialogue’.
What I find particularly amusing is that the first, most obvious link [...]

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The Nasty Party

‘The Nasty Party’ used to be a term applied to the Tories. This is most emphatically no longer the case.
Putting aside historical issues for a moment and looking at recent weeks:
Kathz wrote about an issue (mirror) which I noted, but did not post about until now. That is of Labour playing nasty in Crewe.
The [...]

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Gordon’s Apprentice

As I started to note last night when the story was breaking (I was writing about Caroline Flint), the papers are full of a second memo held by Hazel Blears which reveals that there have been talks of featuring Gordon Brown in an ‘Apprentice’ style TV programme for wannabe politicians.

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Brown an Asset?

Dunwoody cannot confirm that the prime minister is an asset. This is despite her being explicitly asked three times, and then having it explained to her that it was surprising that she could not say he was an asset.

Via the Crown

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Caroline Flint Memo

Photographers have taken a pic of a cabinet memo, held by one Caroline Flint on her way to the meeting. One has to feel slightly sorry for her to have her thoughts placed in the public domain like this (with the photograph plastered all over the news sites). (Pic of memo)

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